Author Archives: Val

A Community of Gardeners 1670-1800, 12 October 2021, 6.30pm

This online talk, promoted by Gunnersbury Park Museum, will last about an hour The landscape in our part of West London was defined by walled garden plots. Val Bott has studied the innovative nursery gardening families, linked by friendship, expertise, business and marriage, and will share her recent research. Book your place in advance through […]

Designing utopia — Norman Shaw & architecture in Bedford Park, 7.30pm, 30 September 2021

This is the Bedford Park Society’s Betjeman Lecture, presented online by Nicholas Friend, MA, FRSA.  Buy tickets at £10 (plus booking fee) from TicketSource The influential architect, Norman Shaw, was appointed Estate Architect of Bedford Park in 1877 early in the development of its unique character. His designs — houses, St Michael & All Angels […]

The History of the Great West Road, 7.30pm, 20 September 2021

For the start of our autumn programme, we offer an illustrated talk by James Marshall, Hounslow’s former Local Studies Librarian, who wrote the important 1995 book of the same title. This talk marks the centenary of the start of construction work on the road in 1921. To book a place at this Zoom talk, please […]

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